warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call

Graeme Nichols gnichols at tpg.com.au
Sat Jul 31 04:30:00 UTC 2004


On Fri, 2004-07-30 at 01:19, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Graeme Nichols wrote:
> 
> > Hello Folks, I have just upgraded from RH8 to FC2 and apart from a USB
> > buss problem I am also getting this message in dmesg:
> > 
> > warning: process `update' used the obsolete bdflush system call
> > Fix your initscripts?
> > 
> > Can someone tell me what I need to change please?
> 
> Perhaps you have some modified files in /etc - and RH8 to FC2 upgrade
> couldn't overwrite them?
> 
> You can look for .rpmnew files in /etc - and see if the corresponding
> file with modifications is what you want to keep (if not mv foo.rpmnew
> foo)
> 
> find /etc -type f -name "*.rpmnew" -print
> 
> for each file it finds do a diff
> diff foo foo.rpmenew
> 
> If your modifications don't matter than:
> mv foo.rpmnew foo
> 
> Satish

Hello Satish, thank you for the info. There are a few of the above files
after the upgrade. Will go through them and see and then follow your
advice.

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